November 2, 2013

October 10, 2013 Lower Body / Olympic Lifting


  • Power Cleans: 135*5
  • Hanging Power Cleans: 155*5 165*4 175*3
  • Hanging Power Snatches: 135*5 145*2 135*5
  • 2-Plate Deficit Deadlifts: 335*4 335*4
  • Pull-Throughs: 100*10
  • Paloffs: 80*10 90*6
36 minutes

Decided to do some more power cleans here, although I prefer doing them heavy. May need to look at form and how I'm doing them. I think my form on snatches is actually better than cleans. I have trouble with the concept of 'rotating myself under the bar' on cleans. It just doesn't make sense to me.  On snatches though it does since it's over my head, and I can think of myself as almost 'swinging' on the bar.  If  I ever figure it out on cleans I'll post about it.  Did more deficit deadlifts. I really hope these things pay off, they're murder on my whole posterior chain, especially my lower back. Not in a bad way, it just taxes the heck out of them.  Also I don't use wraps on them. I've wanted to wean myself off using wrist wraps as much as possible, and since the weight I'm using here is so small it's a great opportunity.  I have to be careful though, when resetting the weight back to the floor those extra few inches really make the bar pick up speed.  Jammed my wrists pretty good. 

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